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June 11, 2019 8:00 am
The Bible says the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord deal with you soon and I'm going to tell you something that sounds contradictory. You cannot Encouraging Word featuring the Bible, the preaching of Dr. Don Wilton that is that unique voice you heard moments ago we launched today's message about one blessing we continue picking up where we left off yesterday in the book of Exodus as we study the word together. Now that were available for you where praying together where helping each other connect with resources of the other end of this phone number 86688668999673 were also connecting online@theencouragingword.org.
We would love to connect with you ballots open our hearts together as we continue the study on one blessing in the Bible-based preaching of Dr. Don Wilton to be pocked all something together without secondly he's given us the right to relate that word to relate is very important. It draws its nourishment from the word relationship from time to time people might come up to you and to me and say you know there's one thing that I love about you and that is that you're very religious. I want to make an announcement today that I'm not religious religion is the belief in anything or anyone you can be religious about anything in the universe. I'm not religious, I have a personal relationship with God in Christ Jesus. That's why want to invite you to give your life to Christ, you can come to know him personally because he died for you personally.
This is God's Bill of Rights the right to belong the right to relate but he's given us 1/3 Brockton that is the right to own the Bible is resplendent with it. Bible tells us clearly, we have the right to own property. We have rights within marriage. Some people may recoil at this concept.
But marriage is ultimate ownership. It's two people coming together saying I want you to know I've fallen in love with you and I'm going to give you the right to own me and you going to give me the right to own you buy the white people often come to me and say to me, all we gotta be married in heaven. I want you to know the Bible says we're not going to be married in heaven right here and I am in come from someone out there we're not going to be married in heaven. By the way, do you know why we're not going to be married in heaven.
We don't gonna be married in heaven because there is no need for ownership. There's no more individual possessiveness that is a human trait, and God recognizes that. That's why when God created Adam.
He put Adam on the earth, and Adam looked around God's he didn't listen, man. I've given you all of these things with the beautiful trees and look at all the animals and Adam was never satisfied. And then God created woman and brought her to him and she complimented him. Marriage is a complementary relationship with two people complement one another. The two hogs so to speak, which holes in their own individual uniqueness become one beautiful hole man and woman in the eyes of God the right to belong in the right to relate to in the right to own God didn't give us this brutal rights designed to make self-serving, or to design it is a self-serving mechanism, but rather it was God's means of placing man's gone. Given the need to belong and to relate and to own if you go back to ancient times you going to find out that stealing is any form any activity associated with taking from anyone or anything in order to change God's perfect man. I he's perfect plan. He's perfect design of his bill of rights for each one of us individually and uniquely we living in a great pressure cooker. I hope that you do everything you can to make yourself healthy and look good but God made you as you all you are the most precious who you are as you all today in our world. We have become so possessed by this man in the South you will desire to make ourselves look like and to behave like them to be like everybody else accepting the white God has made us and it's distorting out before a holy and a righteous God, and God said, thou shalt not steal. Don't rob from me and don't rob from other people become with who you all go back in the ancient days that the Talmud use the word, I love it when you read the Talmud TAL M you'd be in the Hebrew world and that this is not the word steal its word to kidnap in the word to kidnap means somebody wrongfully always carries consequences Bible is full of it. I've written to you about Namath and his vineyard, which is quite a story. We know about Rachel who stole from her father, Laban she had to flee inside Laban went off to Jacob, her husband and only because of interceding at things this matter became resolved. As we read in Exodus and Deuteronomy many instances in the Bible stealing just simply carried the death penalty. It was as simple as that. You steal something you die for. We live in a civilized world today.
What does God have to say about it. People always Austin Frank someone said to me the other day said will you know pasta.
There many different types of stealing them to give you a couple what I did was I took my Bible and I began to do a walk. Came through so many examples. I just want to list these for you.
For some types of stealing just plain old fashion robbery that stealing ensuring accuracy in the book of Leviticus you accurate in what you report what you say and what you do if you're not God calls it, stealing moving boundaries. In fact, the illustration here in the book of Deuteronomy has to do with someone who sells property so maybe I'm speaking to real estate brokers. I don't know people who deal with property buying and purchasing a property. People who boundaries makeshift things just slightly this way or that way kidnapping.
One of the greatest tragedies we have and I will today's this issue.
Kidnapping in the slave trade on on the campus of the University of South Carolina upstate coming up is going to be a stand up or stand out to stand for this. A massive movement in America today from the passion movement in in under Louis Giglio out of Atlanta, Georgia there are so many people involved.
This issue of kidnapping and slavery in the sex Troy. That's what God's words talking about. This flies in in the face of a holy and a righteous God robbing the elderly. I don't want to personalize these things, but God speaks about the elderly.
The elderly have a Very Special Pl. in God's economy Bible talks about robbing older people. You just think about America today, the number of phone calls that coming to the homes of our elderly and how prone and vulnerable.
They all how easily they accept what some man calling from New York to Puerto Rico, Calcutta, India, for all you know is saying about some kind of investment, our elderly today are talking about.
All you need invest in this and you need invest in that and I bought this book that proves God speaks about that in terms of robbery.
Thou shall not steal. Talking about the vulnerable in the week cutting corners is robbery of stealing.
And God saw a corner cutter is a person who's been around, and who knows the system and cuts corners to get to places comes in a little bit light leaves a little bit early because awful. Nobody's going to know it deals with the quality of the heart, dereliction of duty. Judy is an incredible thing manner following Toback duty just let me get the scouts up there today that will teach us more about UG than you can possibly imagine Judy as a mom.
This trait, it's up to, and God singles that out those who are derelict in their duty of duty of stealing thou shalt not steal, withholding of wages earned. If you're in a position to be paying other people and to be supporting other people people work for you and you are withholding earned wages, you are guilty of a violation of this commandment not replaying dates. How many today would say before the Lord borrowed money and I never paid it back. I went to someone and I said please would you loan me some money and they did and when they loaned it to me. I didn't pay them back or you would give a nice scholarship on organization or a university or a church and it was a grown up not a scholarship and you were told that part of the deal was to play it back and you never do what you bought something in the store and you failed to pay your Jews.
God speaks about that that's in the Bible, thou shalt not steal pertaining not to have when actually you do have. God calls that stealing when you give the impression that you don't have but meanwhile you do a lot of, but you do gonna close that stealing devaluing value that's a societal problem. Something is of value in your deed value that value in order to gain dishonestly.
Perhaps you have something to sell, and what you do is you deed value its value or you have something to buy and your deed value its value because the person that's selling it to you doesn't know any different. And maybe they perceive you as the expert and I'm not going to challenge the expert, and so you seize the opportunity to devalue the value so that you can make more money. God says you guilty of a violation of this commandment not returning something found. How many times do you not find something or walk out of a grocery store with something. How many times do we not check out something at the checkout counter and we pay our bill and we walked out and when we run loading into a motorcar, we suddenly realize that the lady at the two missed this item and we saw it doesn't matter, but I did over God sit stealing. If you keep a Bible list these things what about the grocery store.
Regardless, he talks about these things in the Levitical law cheating on income taxes always get on to the next one here. I've said to myself or my gonna sit down and do my income taxes.
I'm actually going to try and get ahead of the curve or one of my very best friends in his room called me a couple weeks ago and he said to duty duty duty duty I finish my taxes.
Austin will Rudy 222. Do you you cheat on your income taxes. God calls that stealing Jesus said give to Caesar that which is Caesar's and to God that which is God's. If that's the law of the land. If you know and love the Lord, you guilty of theft wasting waste. Did you know waste. The Bible calls waste theft, causing willful damage, vandalism is theft going into a church and desecrating a symmetry painting on somebody else's wall breaking someone else's property. Keying someone's motorcar on the parking lot. God calls that stealing your taking away from someone else. You're not just doing something you're taking your robbing causing willful damage in justice or love to go to some about solicitors you know that I'm looking at. Let them get up and talk to you about injustice. They deal with it every day. The injustice of man toward man dishonoring contracts: the Bible dishonoring contracts going back on your word laziness breaking promises assault awful things that take place with physical assault but taking from somebody that which is not yours to take and robbing that person of they laugh and of the value. When you getting to the New Testament. The New Testament very clearly just brings these things back. The New Testament does five things in relation to thou shalt not steal. Number one.
The New Testament repeats that the monument repeatedly. Like for example in Matthew chapter 19 Jesus repeatedly invokes the commandments, even to the rich young ruler, although why he only mentioned five commandments.
I'm still trying to figure out.
Maybe he knew those were the five commandments that this man So the New Testament repeats thou shalt not steal. The New Testament warnings of the consequences of stealing we read you one passage. This is a tough one. First Corinthians chapter 6, first Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 10. Listen to what the Bible says all started verse nine do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived by the sexually immoral nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor people who practice homosexuality, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor violence nor swim lose will inherit the kingdom of God. And if I was going to just stop there. I would feel a most miserable man, so I'll tell you the rest of that verse in just a second, because the New Testament repeats the Kaman not to steal, warns us what we do when we do steel upholds the rights that we've spoken about the right to belong the right to relate and the right own, confirm the role of authority to in to enforce the law concerning stealing gun read Romans chapter 13. But I think most wonderfully in the New Testament confirms the redemption that we have in Christ. The New Testament redeems us all right. Look at verse 11 of that same passage I just read to you� God says you guilty of these things against God. You will not inherit the kingdom of God would look at verse 11 and such were some of you that great but you will washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of Jesus Christ by the spirit of God bears the work of God. I was preaching to the South Carolina Baptist convention made a statement this is the statement only God can save statement number two only the spirit can convict statement number three only fruit can be a testimony and what God is saying here in this passage is that you and I but hope it's a wonderful when I begin to go through these lists out of the Bible about the meaning of stealing. To be honest with you folks begin to feel a little pain developing in my stomach. Remember that repeatedly, we discovered that these 10 Commandments are as much about the act, as they are about the thought done brought God and don't rub your fellow man. So here are three things you must do let me brings together three things you must someone determine your treasure. Determine your treasure. Matthew chapter 6 the Bible says when you determine your treasure when you know where your treasure is, your heart will be right there. So just think about you before the Lord today. Determine where your treasure is, what is your focus number two DU with your son friend.
I want to employ you today. God loves you do with your son.
The Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord deal with you soon and I'm going to tell you something that sounds contradictory. You cannot deal with it. God can will be back with more of those fundamental issues with Dr. Wilton, adjustable, and he got so much more to come as we wrap up this message on one blessing today which micronet women.
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First and foremost, to pray, but also to put resources in your hands or maybe answer questions that God has stirred up to the teaching of Dr. Don Wilton. And speaking of that teaching. Let's dive right back in today's message is one blessing from Dr. Don Wilton.
You see, when you deal with your sin, you come to the point at which you recognize that only Jesus Christ can forgive you for your sin and that fantastic and he does when I look at these commandments I say Lord, how can I ever live to the power of 10 he says listen, just determine where your treasure is due. Heart examination before the Lord now deal with you soon and to deal with your sin means that you've got to confess that sin to Jesus. Do it right now confess you send to him then repent of that sin turn away from it, give it to Christ to go to do this from your heart. You make you brand-new. If you don't know him, he will save you.
If you are saved. He will restore your joy every time you guilty of stealing you going to lose out in the joy department determine your treasure deal with your center. Number three. Do not turn back.
Do not turn back in Luke chapter 3 in verse 14, the Bible says be content with your wages. That's a beautiful statement business. That doesn't mean to say I'm not going to work harder to try and get more doesn't mean to say that I'm not going to have ambition doesn't mean to say that I'm not going to strive doesn't mean to say that I'm not going to study does mean to say that I'm not going to try and achieve Eagle Scout, it doesn't mean to say that what it means is that I just I just know that God made me the way that I can. I have sin before Manatt confess that sin I just want to be the biggest me.
I want God to let me be the base me. I have no need to try and rob from anybody else or anything else to borrow what is not mine in order to make me something or someone that I'm not I'm going to be content.
I'm not turning back. I'm going to set the record straight.
If you owe some money. Go ahead and do something about it. If you cannot make payment on start somewhere. Go to that person say would you accept $10 a month acting in good faith deal openly and honestly go before people don't just dig yourself a whole and if you are guilty before God of stealing. Do what God is telling you to do. Don't live out the rest of your life for thou shalt not steal, and most of all don't rob God. Don't take from God that which is God's how can you rob God you can rob God by not giving him yourself because everything that you have comes from him. Give him everything. When you give everything to him, he will give everything to you because he loves you.
I'm going to invite you today to respond to what God is saying I'm all askew today to give your life to Christ to listen to Lord God in heaven as he invites us up on the mountaintop to live up to the power of 10 yet I was sinking deep in sin fall from the peaceful show.
Guess what folks Christ heard my cry. He lifted me up now safe and my in his arms.
Thou shall not steal, God looks down at us in the belly and says excuse me, peon of the mountaintop. I'll show you what it means to live to the power of 10 is a great truth of Dr. Wilton not only what he been teaching, but that confession right there. God's love run through this man.
It's real. When he says I love you. He means it when I first met him at you don't even know me and maybe you're feeling that he doesn't know me, I'm listening to this broadcast God has connected him in a remarkable way to the ability to share the love of Christ and to remind us that you and I have the opportunity to do that as well to extend the love of Christ with those around us.
If the Lord stirred your heart right now, you're going.
I'm not so sure I'm even connected to God to be able to extend that you can be you can connect today to God in a remarkable way, here's another thought from Dr. Don Wilton are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why don't you pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God, I know that on the center and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross today, I repent of my sin and by faith I receive you into my heart. In Jesus name, my friend.
I welcome you today into the family of God. This is exciting news spoken to you through Dr. Wilton today.
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